RESPONSE TO A WHITE HOUSE INQUIRY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80M00165A002200140008-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 30, 2004
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: January 12, 1977
• Content Type: MF

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MEMORANDUM FOR: EA/DCI
FROM DDO/EUR
SUBJECT Response to a White House Inquiry
1. TheDirectorate for Operations has no evidence
sugges.ting.that the Soviet Government is-seeking to-test
the incoming U.S. Administration through actions in Gervany.
Judging from past- patterns, the East German actions in Berli_
-have been approved by Soviet authorities.- We have no
clandestine information on their background, but plausible
explanations are not hard to find in the present state of
relations between the Soviets and the East Germans on one
side-and the West Germans on the other, a subject on which
we have clandestine reporting. We judge that any broader
international. motives on the Soviet part are less likely to
concern relations with the U.S. than-plans for coming
developmeints in MBFR and/or CSCE.
2. Attached i~_; a message we have sent to our field
offices suggesting questions for intelligence collectior.
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